The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-28

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$4,000 IN an attempt to secure his free
dom.
Congressman Morrison has been
mentioned for the position OF member
OF the interstate commission, as were
also Senator Conger and a son or Sen
ator THURMAN. The pay is 81. 800 a
year.
The district attorney at Boston an
nounces a'compr0mise i'll the case of
Richard j. Lane, late president of the
ed nearly all of the Sl20,000 which he
embezzled.
Four Pinkerton men were arraigned
in the Jersey City Police Court Friday
for shooting Thomas Hogan. the 49,
year-old boy who threw .snowballs at
them, and were remanded for further
examination.
George Hazard. a colored man who
broke into a Catholic convent at
Greenfield, Michigan, and compelled a
nun to leap through a window, has
been sentenced to twenty years in the
penitentiary.
The American whaling fleet has de-
generated to 12l vessels, One-third of
which are offered for sale. The total
catch OF the year just ended was 20, 900
barrels of oil and 100000 pounds of
whale-bOne.
BY the explosion of a carload of
giant powder near Fort Scott man
famed Scott Hooker was instantly
killed, fifteen cars were blown to
atoms, and SIC. 900 worth of plate-glass
was broken.
The Phoenix and Maricopa railway
has been ordered by the secretary of
the interior to stop grading through
the ella river reservation until the
consent of the Indians in council has
been obtained.
r. A. Alger, the retiring governor of
Michigan, traced out five hundred
needy families in Detroit, during the
recent cold snap, and sent each of them
barrel of flour and ton of coal OF
cord of wood.
Currency continues to flow from the
west and south to New York. The
banks of that city report steady
increase in their reserve, the amount
in excess of legal requirements being
now SIS, 796, $40.
Elihu b. Washburne brands as q
fabrication the statement cabled from
Paris that while American minister at
that city he used his facilities to for
ward letters through the German lines
for 20 francs each.
The heirs to Reno w. Renault pro-
pose to hold meeting in Pittsburg
next month, and prepare papers for
suit to recover large tracts of land in
Illinois and Missouri, including $40,-
OOO, 900 worth in Peoria.
The Michigan House. in committee
of the whole, adopted bill providing
q punishment of five years in the state
prison for persons who decoy girls
from the larger cities to stockades in
the lumber and mining camps.
S. Angler Chace, who nine years ago
nearly $500, 900 from Fall
River mill of which he was treasurer,
has been pardoned from the Massachu-
setls penitentiary by Governor Ames,
on account OF impaired health.
On the ground that the contract was
based OH gambling operation, the
county court of Milwaukee dismissed
the suit OF Daniel Wells against Peter
for 100000 alleged to be due
on the famous lard deal OF 1880.
The ice III the Maumee river at
Toledo broke loose Sunday afternoon,
away $50 feet of the Union
railroad bridge. There is great
danger that 400 feet of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad bridge will be wrecked.
The governor of Ohio, on receiving
that the cattle quarantine
is evaded by roundabout shipments
from Chicago, has extended to the
state of Illinois the provisions of the
order forbidding importations of live
stock.
A passenger train on the Louisville
and Nashville road was wrecked near
ILL.,, by the explosion of
the boiler Of the locomotive. The
engineer and fireman were killed. and
the express and baggage cars were
demolished.
Evans FabeS, negro who was par
doned from the Mississippi peniten-
tiary because of inhuman treatment by
Withers for damages, and was award
ed $1,000 by jury comprising eleven
white men.
The Austro- Hungarian military
continue undated. In
event of mobilization three great
armies will be formed, each corps havs
ing no less than $50, 900 men, the COM
manders of which have already been
designatef.
The Off, ais of the Atchison road
have let contracts for 4 800 freight cars
for the Chicago division, to be deliver
ed during the latter half of this year.
to the number of 148
have been ordered, as also eighty pas
senger cars.
The directors of the Merchants ex-
change, of st. Louis, have adopted a
recommending William r.
Morrison for place on the interstate
commerce commission. The Toledo
produce exchange puts forward REM
son B. Smith.
The Texas house passed bill for
bidding the acceptance Of railway
passes and orders for transportation
by judicial, executive, administrative,
or legislative officers, except sheriffs
or cOnstables. under penalty of max
imum fine Of 81 900.
The Supreme court of Illinois has
decided that the university at Normal
is not the property of the state. In
1885 the legislature declared the title
to the land vested in Julia Bakewell,
but the state board of education re-
fused to give possession.
Representatives of several packing
houses in Kansas City have made ar
tn shin their goods to